Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-11 Thread Jim Gettys
Note that while my opinion matches Keith Packard's (we'd like to see xprint go away, but there are also dependencies on it), Roland Maintz has done much work to improve its behavior in the recent X.org X releases. Of course, Debian is still stuck in the past, while pretty much the rest of the

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: But a total of eleven is insane. It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes. It also

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:12 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Yeah, definitely. If our goal is making our software as portable and bug-free as possible, we'd be better off running fewer arches but with a greater variety of compilers. Now if there were only any viable free alternatives to GCC...

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Gettys
Bruce, The history there is much more complex that that; you are oversimplifying. In fact, with my perspective, the failure occurred before that, but (un)intended consequences of the Consortium agreement, which disenfranchised the flourishing community we had built. Pay for say, and centralized

Re: How to depend on Japanese fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Jim Gettys
16 months ago. It does represent a major architectural shift in X; the reasons for it are outlined in our Usenix paper. - Jim On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 19:52, Cameron Patrick wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: | This is a fundamental

Re: How to depend on Japanese fonts?

2003-12-14 Thread Jim Gettys
application, nor can it use them if they are. Fonts must rather be installed on the host where the font server runs, which is probably the one where the X server runs. -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory

Re: using freedesktop.org libs

2003-11-11 Thread Jim Gettys
? - Jim Gettys On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:46, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:11, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: I found this idea very interesting. I think that the debian project should take more advantage